Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-30
CITY NEWS In BRIEF.
eIIHPsEs OF MEN AsD THINGS ABOUT
RICHMOND.
Personals About People We Know-A
lumber OF Subjects Treated
in Short Space.

JutBe AlhOl 10 III Allelis HOiuno
court.
Captain Jack Talley, Of Lexington,
was IN the city yesterday.
1t is doubtful il the Virginia Military
Institute cadets can come here on the
9th.
Judge Wexford yesterday adjourned
the SPECIAL term Of the City Circuit
Court.
The Mercantile Club will have it's
opening hall at Sanger Hall next Tues
day night.
Charles II. Shackelford, of Abe
marie, sent to the penitentiary for bur
glary, was pardoned by Governor Lee
yesterday.
Yesterday was a close, sultry, rainy
and altogether disagreeable day. Folks
long for "the October days" of Hal
cyon memory.
General Wade Hampton has tele-
oraphed Governor Lee 4" / accept the
position of chief marshal OF the parade
Of October 27th."
Frank johnson (colored) was re-
ceiyed at the penitentiary from Fair
fax county yesterday to serve two years
for LousobreakIng.
The rehearsal for the old folks con-
cent Of st. Johns church will be held
at Mrs. c. L. FitzWilson's, 2613 east
Grace street, tonight
Colonel Wertenbaker, of the Third,
has asked that quarters be assigned to
the ten companies Of his regiment, all
of which will be here on the 9th.
The City Hall building begins TO
make q fine appearance. The work is
well done, and all the signs are that it
will be an exceedingly imposing struc-
ture.
Mrs. James B. Weisiger, of Colum-
bus, Co., who has been visiting rela-
tivos in this city, returned home We'd
nesday, accompanied by her sister,
Miss Lula Walker.
in the Police Court yesterday morn
ing the case Of Charles Greaves, q CO.
lored boy, charged with attempting to
pick the pocket Of Henderson Lewis,
was continued until to-day.
Senator John w. Daniel, who is to
speak at King and Queen Courthouse
October Ctb, will receive q great Ova-
ton. People will come distance OF
twenty or thirty miles to hear him.
Lizzie Chappell, who was employed
in the laundry at the Exchange Hotel,
WAS arrested yesterday on the charge OF
stealing one lot of bedspreads, table
cloths, and napkins, the property Of J.
l.. Darlington. She will be before the
Police Court this morning.
Timber for the track of the street
railway over Mayo's bridge to Man
chester, to be built by the Manchester
Railway and Improvement Company,
was placed in position yesterday on
Fourteenth street from the dock to
point between Cary and Main streets.
The Hon. John S. Wise has engage
monts to speak at Gloucester Court
house the first Monday in October; at
Lunenburg Courthouse the second
Monday at Harrisonburg the third,
and at Luray the fourth. These are
the only speeches he will make III the
canvass.
The following pupils were each
awarded gold medal at the closing ex-
oroises of the Pen Art Hall Writing
School yesterday: Miss Bulah X. An
thony. W. +. Clark, Harvey Clements.
and II. W. Elournoy. A number of
pupils were awarded certificates for
proficiency.
Among those mentioned in connec-
ton with The appointment as superin
tcndent Of schools for the city of Nor
folk, the place made vacant by the
desth Of Captain James Barron Hope,
are Professor William NJ. Jones, DR..
James l.. HUBBARD, Captain George W.
Taylor, and Professor j. {. Little. The
Board of Education will soon make tho
appointment.
Richmond badly needs street-car
connection with her chief railroad
Gerot-the Byrd-Street station-and
the sooner the City Railway Company
gives it the better the public will bo
piCacd. As now proposed the Elec-
hic Line will 60 there, but it is not so
certain that the horse.cars will. The
station is difficult of access, but reached
II can be and should lie.
Mr.. +. j. Hatcher (son of Rev. DR..
Hatcher has returned from Rock
ludee Alum Springs robust and vigo-
Icus. and yesterday left for the Johns
hopkins University, in Baltimore. HIS
sister. Miss Orie l.. Hatcher, returned
los the same train to Vassar College,
New Yolk. She is now n senior and
will lie n full graduate next June, thus
completing u four-years' course in three
years.
Tie officers Of the State Council and
Enterprise Council, No. 9. were to 60
to fuiton last night to institute Patrick
Henry Council, No. II, but tho wea
ther was 20 inclement thatit was deemed
best to delay until next Thursday night,
October 9Th. Enterprise, No. 8, held
its regular meeting last night, and after
the initiation Of several new members
addresses were made by Walter l..
Orange, n. V. c., and visiting mem
bers from Petersburg.
Governor Lee is in receipt of several
pressing letters from the Atlanta au-
tLorities inviting him TO be there De-
tober 18th to meet President Cleveland
and other distinguished gentlemen who
will be present. They say they will
take no denial and that he must bring
Mrs. Lee with him, and that rooms
have been reserved for them at the
Kimball House. AT present 1t does
not seem certain that the Governors
business will enable him to accept the
invitation.
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